Lanadelumab Well-Tolerated in Hereditary Angioedema

Bryant Moeller

November 16, 2018

This article originally appeared on Pulmonology Advisor.

None of the treatment-emergent adverse events were serious or life-threatening.

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SEATTLE — Patients aged ≥12 years with type I or II hereditary angioedema (HAE) who received lanadelumab exhibited little hypersensitivity and had low immunogenicity, according to the results of the phase 3 HELP study (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT02586805) presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, & Immunology, held November 15 to 19, 2018, in Seattle.

Treatment-emergent adverse events were recorded from patients aged ≥12 years with type I or II HAE and ≥1 attack during a 4-week run-in who received either subcutaneous lanadelumab at 3 dose ranges (300 mg every 2 weeks, 300 mg every 4 weeks, 150mg every 4 weeks) or placebo over 26 weeks. Lanadelumab is a fully human monoclonal antibody targeting plasma kallikrein and has previously shown efficacy in patients with HAE.

Of the 125 participants enrolled in the study who received ≥1 dose of medication, 84 received lanadelumab and 41 received placebo. Of those, 92.8% of patients in the lanadelumab group and 85.4% of patients in the placebo group completed the study. A total of 90.5% of patients receiving lanadelumab and 75.6% of patients receiving placebo reported ≥1 treatment-emergent adverse event; there were 685 total events reported. However, none of these were serious or life-threatening.

Injection site reactions were the most commonly reported non-HAE attack treatment-emergent adverse events, with 52.4% of lanadelumab-treated patients experiencing 398 reactions vs 34.1% of placebo-treated patients experiencing 85 events. Injection site pain was the most frequently occurring related treatment-emergent adverse event.

A single lanadelumab-treated participant had 2 related hypersensitivity events, and 10 lanadelumab-treated participants and 2 placebo-treated participants exhibited immunogenicity.

The researchers wrote, “Together with its efficacy in preventing HAE attacks, lanadelumab may offer patients a novel and well tolerated therapeutic option for HAE prophylaxis.”

Reference

Johnston D, Banerji A, Riedl M, et al. Lanadelumab safety and immunogenicity: results from the phase 3 HELP study. Presented at: the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American College of Asthma, Allergy, and Immunology; November 15-19, 2018; Seattle, WA. Poster P166.

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